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Title: Titan Canyon Country
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The radar that we've been flying around Saturn
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Text: Voice of Tom Farr, Cassini radar team associate
and passing by Titan periodically,
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we've been able to map out the surface brightness as the radar sees it.
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We see geologic processes that are very similar to what we see on the Earth.
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This is a computer generated 3-D fly through of an area of karst typography on Titan.
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Text: Karst Topography: Landscape shaped by the dissolving of bedrock
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It was generated by inferring the typography and then laying a radar image down on top of the 3-D map.
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This area is an area called Sikun Labyrinthus on Titan.
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It's an area of karst typography very similar to the karst typography we find on Earth,
Text: White Canyon, Utah
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Text: Cockpit Country, Jamaica
especially in places like Jamaica,
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Text: Arecibo, Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico
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Text: Guangxi province, China or China.
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It's an area where liquid methane here on Titan has dissolved the rocks and produced a residual landscape
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of just hills and valleys with no river valleys flowing through the area.
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So it's yet again another process that we see on the Earth that we find on Titan
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making Titan very similar to the Earth in many ways.
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Text: Artistic interpretation and animation by Mike Malaska, Doug Ellison and Bjorn Jonsson
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using radar and imaging data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft and ESA's Huygens probe
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NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
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